Patti Smith Quotes — Page 29

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Musician

Optimistic

“New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.”

People Rocks Rock N Roll

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PS

Patti Smith

Musician

Adventurous

“I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.”

People Thinking Healthy

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Grateful

“I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.”

Waste My Time

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Nostalgic

“I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.”

Memories Glasses

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Romantic

“Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?”

Looks Boys Angel

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Confident

“I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.”

Believe Mean Artist

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Creative

“I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act. I consider it a real physical act. When I'm home writing on the typewriter, I go crazy. I move like a monkey. I've wet myself, I've come in my pants writing.”

Real Moving Crazy

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Funny

“The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.”

Thinking Book Dirty

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Creative

“I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.”

People Thinking Art

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Thoughtful

“My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.”

Parent Educated Sophisticated

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Love

“I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women.”

Men Strong Sex

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Confident

“It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.”

Important Hair Role Models

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